Rajat wrote:
On Jul 8, 4:57 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
In message <mailman.2795.1246997268.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Christian
Heimes wrote:
By the way most operating systems don't lock a file when it's opened for
reading or writing or even executed.
The general conclusion seems to be that mandatory locking is more trouble
than it's worth.
My OS is a windows XP sp3. All I'm trying to achieve is to close an
application ( which could be a notepad, a wordpad or some other text
editor) that have opened my file. Once the file is closed I can easily
delete that file.
I guess, if file is opened by one of that application, the file must
be locked and so is the reason I cannot delete the file.
I assume that your real requirement is: I can't open/close/delete
this file; it must be locked by something else; what is that
something else?
The simplest thing is probably to run sysinternals' handle util:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx
and use the subprocess module to parse the output.
That will give you the pid, and you can then use, eg, psutil:
http://code.google.com/p/psutil/
to get the details of the process.
TJG
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